kitchen

freeisgood

How about buying an ikea kitchen....or getting a cheap/free kitchen from ebay gumtree...people getting a new kitchen often give the old one away for next to nothing...you would then have to pay for the fitting though.

stranger12

I have done plastering, re wiring and plumbing so I can't imagine the fitting will be any more difficult than above.

I have chased wall, chased for backbox, installed radiators .

is it just a matter of putting it together and then screw it to wall?

DOes it come with instruction on how to put it together?

B&Q wants few k for fitting which is an absolute rip off

Chanes

We have just had a B&Q kitchen fitted and it was done really well all to schedule and the things we picked at (some tiling around a circular base) were redone the next day. We returned a couple of hundred pounds of parts which they picked up.

I know the fitting is expensive but we only dealt with one person for all trades and they arrived when they said they would and completed when they said they would. I used them because I know of two other people who did and were really happy too.

I don't want the hassle of chasing trades and them not turning or up botching it and not coming back...it was just easy to deal with B&Q's service centre for it all. And if you could put a price on the stress I have seen some people suffering when having kitchens fitted and problems during and after I feel it was money well spent not to have that.

hazyjo

Have had 3 B+Q kitchens but ruled them out last time cos they've whacked the fitting cost up. Ended up with Homebase but got our own fitter. Kitchen was around £3,500-4k with a couple of grand to fit and move electric and plumbing points etc.

Happy with the kitchen but a few of the soft close things have stopped working 3 years on. Would expect that with them all, tbh.

Jx

Nebulous2

stranger12 wrote: »

I have done plastering, re wiring and plumbing so I can't imagine the fitting will be any more difficult than above.

I have chased wall, chased for backbox, installed radiators .

is it just a matter of putting it together and then screw it to wall?

DOes it come with instruction on how to put it together?

B&Q wants few k for fitting which is an absolute rip off

This is a fairly old thread now - we went for Diy kitchens in the end and I'm really glad we did. Solid units, not flatpack, made self build easier. Levelling the units is important, spend some money on spirit-levels or borrow some. Getting the join in the worktop right is also important. We bought a jig and router rather than hiring and again I'm glad we did.

There wasn't a great deal of putting together. Diy kitchens have tutorials and videos that proved quite helpful. You tube is always a help. Planning, measuring and making sure you order everything you need is worth spending time on. As always, if doing it again there are some things we would change, but all-in-all it was definitely worth doing.

neneromanova

My kitchen was £3k including everything. I got mine from Ikea and love it

anselld

stranger12 wrote: »

I have done plastering, re wiring and plumbing so I can't imagine the fitting will be any more difficult than above.

I have chased wall, chased for backbox, installed radiators .

is it just a matter of putting it together and then screw it to wall?

DOes it come with instruction on how to put it together?

B&Q wants few k for fitting which is an absolute rip off

Nothing has changed in the last 5 months; either do it yourself or find a recommended local fitter.

exiled_red

We looked into getting our kitchen done through B&Q and it was really expensive for fitting all materials (except appliances) came to ~£2.5k and they wanted just over £4k to fit it. We just got our own fitter (who we found out fits kitchens for B&Q as well as working for himself) to fit it and cost us £2.5k. So we got the same kitchen fitted by what could have been the same person for £1.5k less than if we'd paid B&Q for everything, the only down side is that the fitting isn't covered under a B&Q warranty, but given how much we saved that doesn't bother me.

We bought our appliances for AO as they had a wide selection and were the cheapest place we found for what we wanted.

I would just suggest getting a kitchen fitter who has electricians and gas fitters and tilers that they work with and can oversee everything which was what we did that way you save time messing about.

exiled_red

stranger12 wrote: »

I have done plastering, re wiring and plumbing so I can't imagine the fitting will be any more difficult than above.

I have chased wall, chased for backbox, installed radiators .

is it just a matter of putting it together and then screw it to wall?

DOes it come with instruction on how to put it together?

B&Q wants few k for fitting which is an absolute rip off

If you are looking at doing it yourself consider how long it will take particularly if you are living in the place while doing the kitchen, we had professional fitters but having the kitchen out of use for a few days was a real frustration.

Our kitchen is fairly small ~6 base cupboards and 5 wall cupboards, plus a space for oven, washing machine fridge etc, but the building of these units mounting of worktops, baseboards, filler panels etc took the 3 professional fitters about a day and a half working full time to do, if you are doing it on your own and have little experience I imagine it could easily take you a week, and there will be tasks you need assistance with, and some stuff that will need to be done by someone qualified (installing an oven/hob etc)

hcb42

Another vote for Howdens. They will come out and design, and then we used a local builder (my neighbour!) to fit it. We had gone to one of the big brands, but we were compromising on everything to get it on budget!

That said mine was £14K including all appliances, gloss units, granite worktops, fitting and electricals, etc and including utility room.